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Apple released The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 on the 17th of December 2013. This digital album appeared exclusively through the iTunes Store for a very short time before disappearing from the platform.
The strategy aimed to extend copyright protection under European Union law by twenty years. EU regulations protect recordings for seventy years only if they are formally released, preventing the 1963 tracks from entering the public domain in 2014.
Fifteen studio outtakes and demo recordings filled the first part of the compilation while forty-two live performances recorded for BBC radio programs made up the rest. John Lennon recorded demos for songs titled Bad to Me and I'm in Love which later became singles for Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas and The Fourmost respectively.
Tracks one through fourteen were mixed in stereo format while the remaining forty-five tracks utilized mono mixing techniques instead. Stereo mixes offered separation between left and right channels whereas mono mixes presented all audio signals through a single channel as was standard for 1963 releases.
This digital album appeared exclusively through the iTunes Store for a very short time before disappearing from the platform. It is no longer available to buyers after that brief window closed during December 2013.